MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

                                                       Environmental Protection Act 1994
                                    Chapter 13 Savings, transitional and related provisions
         Part 2 Transitional provisions for Environmental Protection and Other Legislation
                                                                     Amendment Act 2000
                                                                                    [s 607]

              (b)    considers any written representations made by the
                     holder within the stated period.
        (3)   The administering authority must, within 10 business days
              after the Minister decides to amend the environmental
              authority—
              (a)    make the amendment; and
              (b)    give the holder a copy of the amended environmental
                     authority; and
              (c)    record particulars of the amendment in the appropriate
                     register.
        (4)   If the Minister gave an amendment notice, but decided not to
              make the proposed amendment, the administering authority
              must, within 10 business days after the decision is made, give
              the holder a written notice of the decision.

607      Consolidation of conditions for same mining project
        (1)   This section applies—
              (a)    if more than 1 person holds a transitional authority for
                     the same mining project; and
              (b)    despite chapter 5.
        (2)   A person who holds a transitional authority for the project,
              may apply to the administering authority to—
              (a)    amend any environmental authority (mining activities)
                     held by a stated holder of a relevant mining tenement to
                     include the conditions of the applicant’s transitional
                     authority; and
              (b)    surrender the applicant’s transitional authority.
        (3)   The application must—
              (a)    be in the approved form; and
              (b)    if the stated mining tenement holder is not the
                     applicant—be accompanied by the tenement holder’s
                     written consent.
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